The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power Highlight

“Telecom companies are against this proposal, arguing it puts them on an unequal footing with other internet companies that collect data on users, like Google.…”140 In October 27, 2016, FCC commissioners in a 3–2 vote delivered a landmark ruling in favor of, in this case, consumer protection on the internet. It was a historic day not only in the young life of surveillance capitalism but also in the venerable and long life of the FCC, an agency that had never before passed such online protections.